Maggie Moore(s)
Maggie Moore(s)
Police Chief Sanders investigates the bizarre murders of two women with the same name and unravels a web of small-town lies. He meets and quickly falls for Rita, a nosy neighbor who is eager to help solve the mystery.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
The plot here is so strikingly similar to Fargo that it practically begs the comparison. Still, I love Jon Hamm and Tina Fey enough to make this a decent watch. Small town business owner, Jay Moore (Micah Stock), is down on his luck and is cutting corners in his sandwich shop franchise in order to save on costs. But when his wife Maggie finds out about the scheme, he hires a seedy individual (Happy Anderson) to scare her into keeping quiet. But Jay’s his criminal designs quickly spiral out of his control, because when Maggie Moore turns up dead, Jordan Sanders (Jon Hamm) and Deputy Reddy (Nick Mohammed) are assigned to the case to unravel the mystery.
A romantic subplot between Moore’s neighbor, Rita Grace (Tina Fey) and Hamm’s Jordan is cute and is the one aspect that feels original to Fargo. Everything else doesn’t really fare well by comparison. The small town setting isn’t nearly as quirky, the cinematography isn’t as noteworthy. I still enjoyed this quite a bit for what it is and think it’s worth streaming if you’re looking for a Coen Brothers-ish crime-comedy.